More than six years before Sarah Palin visited ground zero as the Republican vice presidential nominee, her parents were there as part of the response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks -- trapping rats.

There aren't a lot of upsides to getting old, but if most of your income comes from Social Security, here's one: You probably don't have to file a federal tax return. While your adult children are struggling to figure out whether they qualify for the home-office deduction, you can curl up with a good novel, or go to the movies.

The Caribbean Sea is the world's fifth largest body of water and is home to more than 7,000 islands. While you can't sail a major cruise ship to every nook and cranny of the Caribbean, you do have an abundance of choices when it comes to picking an itinerary.

Karen Mayo Kozlowski, the wife of convicted former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and the woman whose $2 million birthday party on the island of Sardinia came to represent an era of executive excess, has filed a petition for divorce.

A shortage of bus drivers across the country is leaving children stranded at bus stops for hours and forcing school districts to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime to get kids to and from school.